Lin Jin stared at the imperial edict in her hand in a daze. She didn't care what the world thought of her. If she did care, she wouldn't have made such a request to Song Shiqiu.

"I have received your kindness now." Lin Jin looked a little distressed, because she didn't know how to respond to Song Shiqiu, and what she could do for Song Shiqiu, "Thank you."

Song Shiqiu frowned almost imperceptibly: "Do you have anything else to ask me?"

"Yes." Lin Jin then remembered the reason why she came here in the first place, "It's because of Princess Huaiya. Zhining wants your thousand-year-old ginseng to treat the princess. She said she could..."

"I will have someone send it to the palace tomorrow." Song Shiqiu took over before Lin Jin finished speaking, "The Queen Mother also took good care of Xia Xia and me in the past, but it's just a ginseng, there's no use in keeping it."

"I haven't finished speaking yet." Lin Jin was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it seemed reasonable. Song Shiqiu was indeed not the kind of person who cared about these things.

But it seemed meaningless to say the rest of the words. Song Shiqiu obviously intended to return the favor by giving the ginseng.

"Liu Zhengqing just sent me a bracelet. It looks like the Buddhist beads you always wore on your wrist." Song Shiqiu took out the Buddhist beads bracelet and looked at Lin Jin's empty wrist. "Did it fall into Liu's house?"

"Finished it?" Lin Jin took the bracelet with surprise. She was worried that she would never be able to string it together again, but she actually did it. "I don't know what happened last time, the string for stringing the bracelet suddenly broke, and the beads have small eyes, so I couldn't string them together. Later, my brother said he would find someone to string them together, so I left it with him."

"How could it break for no reason?" Song Shiqiu always felt that something was wrong. This Buddhist bead was given to Lin Jin by Xianglian, so it was impossible for it to break for no reason. "But what else happened?"

Lin Jin's lips gradually dropped: "It was broken on the day the system was untied. After the Buddhist beads were broken, the system said that the gift package had been delivered, and then there was nothing special."

Meeting Qingfeng shouldn't count, after all, the system had already prompted you about meeting an old friend.

"This string of Buddhist beads is not an ordinary string, and the thread used is not an ordinary thread. It will not break unless there is something wrong." Song Shiqiu felt that it was strange that the beads broke, but he could not figure out the reason. "Perhaps only Xianglian can answer my doubts."

"It shouldn't be a problem." Lin Jin had a feeling that it wouldn't be a bad thing. "The system said it would not lie to me."

"We still have to be prepared for the worst." Song Shiqiu was still worried. There were too many unexpected things happening to Lin Jin. "You'd better not wear this bracelet for the time being."

"It's not as serious as you say. If this string of Buddhist beads would bring disaster, Master Xianglian would not have given it to me." Lin Jin wrapped the bracelet around her wrist twice. She hadn't worn it for a while and was still a little uncomfortable.

Song Shiqiu snorted coldly. He might have thought so before, but after what happened at Fuyun Court, he was no longer so sure.

"Don't think too much." Lin Jin smiled. "By the way, I noticed that the harvests in some places have decreased instead of increased. I plan to set up a test field. I have already made the plan last night. I will have someone bring it to you later. You can have someone arrange the rest."

"Well... do you have something else to do?" Song Shiqiu heard something wrong in her words. Logically speaking, Lin Jin should not be very busy now.

"I want to go see Yuzhu. I met her when I came back last time. She looked much more haggard than when I left Beijing. I'm worried about her." Lin Jin felt distressed when she thought of Fang Yuzhu's haggard look. She's still pregnant, and life is already very hard. If she's still not happy, her body will collapse.

Song Shiqiu nodded, but even so, Cui Xian's matter still had no room for maneuver: "I'll have someone prepare some things, and you can take them with you when the time comes. It can be regarded as a condolence between colleagues."

Of course, you can't go to visit someone empty-handed, so Lin Jin didn't ride a horse, but took a carriage. He first met the Marquis of Zhenbei and his wife, and after some polite exchanges, he went to Fang Yuzhu's courtyard.

Fang Yuzhu was taking a nap at this time. She opened her eyes when she heard the conversation outside in a daze: "Hechun, who is here?"

He Chun heard the voice and hurried in to serve Fang Yuzhu: "Madam, it's Madam Song who came to see you."

"Song...Lin Liu." Fang Yuzhu was still sleepy. "Let her in."

Lin Jin looked at Fang Yuzhu. Her belly was slightly bulging, but her body was very thin. Her originally plump and round face looked as if all the collagen had been lost. "How did you get yourself into this state?"

"You came here just to slander me." The sadness in Fang Yuzhu's eyes remained unchanged.

"What do you mean by insulting you? I mean I feel bad for your body." Lin Jin was angry and distressed. "No matter what, your body is your own. You are the one who suffers the most."

She knew that Fang Yuzhu was very sad about Cui Xian's affairs, but she couldn't let herself be ruined like this.

"What qualifications do you have to criticize me?" Fang Yuzhu rolled her eyes at her. "You were even more exaggerated than I was."

At the beginning, Lin Jin was not even a human being, okay?

Lin Jin: “…”

Although Lin Jin wanted to refute, she couldn't find a point to refute: "So I know how uncomfortable it is, I feel sorry for you and hope you get better."

"You really can't go on like this. Maybe the food cooked by the chef is not to your liking? I also brought a lot of vegetables and seasonings that I grew. What flavor do you want, sour, spicy or sweet and sour? I'll cook it for you to try." Lin Jin sat down next to Fang Yuzhu. From this angle, Fang Yuzhu's thinness looked even more frightening.

Fang Yuzhu smiled helplessly: "Don't bother with this, I don't have much appetite."

"Don't be like this, be happy. You can't eat because you are unhappy, so you suppress your appetite. It will be fine if you are happy." Lin Jin didn't know how to persuade her. She also didn't know what would happen to Cui Xian later. "Should, should..."

"Lin Liu, I know the laws of Daxia better than you do. Xianniang can't survive." Fang Yuzhu closed her eyes in pain. Even if she failed to spread rumors and confuse the people, she would not have a good ending. "In Daxia, this crime is only considered treason and conspiracy."

Unless Your Majesty shows leniency or Song Shiqiu steps in, no one can save Cui Xian.

Lin Jin didn't know how to comfort her. Emotionally, she should comfort Fang Yuzhu. Logically, she knew that the law was unforgiving. Once the law made an exception for one person, it would lose fairness.

Unless Cui Xian is safe and sound, how can she comfort Fang Yuzhu?

"Don't show that expression. It was Xianniang who did something wrong, not you. You don't need to blame yourself." Fang Yuzhu chuckled, "No matter who it is, if they do something wrong, they have to pay the price."

She just couldn't let go. This was her friend of many years, but in the end it ended up like this.

"Lin Liu, do you think there really is a god above us? Otherwise, why would retribution come so quickly? We can't do anything that would make us feel guilty."

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